[Geo4All] [Board] FOSS4G Argentina

Wed May 31 09:58:16 PDT 2017

Sergio. Alguien de Geo4all participará del FOSS4GI?

El mié., 31 de may. de 2017 13:41, Maria Antonia Brovelli <
maria.brovelli at polimi.it> escribió:

> Thanks Sergio!!! I'll wait for the closing of the voting of the Board. If,
> as per the proposal of the Board, the travel is covered, I'll buy the
> flight ticket this weekend. Then we will see about accomodation. In the
> worst case I'll pay by my pocket. In any case Latin America is so relevant
> that we have to invest our time, energy and money on that.
> And with the help of Latin America Community we will spread  the FOSS4G
> everywhere.
> Cheers
> Maria
>
>
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung device
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA <sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy>
> Date: 31/05/2017 17:50 (GMT+01:00)
> To: Venka <venka.osgeo at gmail.com>, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at>,
> Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>
> Cc: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org, board at lists.osgeo.org, Malena Libman <
> malena.libman at gmail.com>
> Subject: RE: [Geo4All] [Board] FOSS4G Argentina
>
> Hi. I think it's a great opportunity to have Maria attending FOSS4G
> Argentina. GeoForAll Iberoamérica surely agrees with this and will help
> Malena and colleagues with anything they need.
>
> Sergio Acosta y Lara
> Departamento de Geomática
> Dirección Nacional de Topografía
> Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
> URUGUAY
> (598)29157933 ints. 20329/20330
> http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/
>
> ________________________________________
> De: GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> en nombre de Venka <
> venka.osgeo at gmail.com>
> Enviado: martes, 30 de mayo de 2017 4:00
> Para: Anita Graser; Maria Antonia Brovelli
> Cc: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org; board at lists.osgeo.org
> Asunto: Re: [Geo4All] [Board] FOSS4G Argentina
>
> On 2017/05/30 15:36, Anita Graser wrote:
> > Big +1 to support air fare and accommodations!
>
> +1, Venka.
> >
> > Thank you Maria for taking the time to make this trip.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Anita
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Suchith Anand <
> > Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks to FOSS4G Argentina LOC for their efforts to promote Open
> >> Principles in geoeducation. I really hope the Board will support Maria's
> >> travel to give keynote on behalf of OSGeo for wider outreach to South
> >> America. OSGeo needs to support and expand our activities in the
> developing
> >> world
> >>
> >> Malena and the Argentinian colleagues - Please let the GeoforAll
> community
> >> know how we can support you for the  session you are planning?
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> >>
> >> Suchith
> >>
> >> ________________________________________
> >> From: Board <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Shin, Sanghee
> <
> >> shshin at gaia3d.com>
> >> Sent: 30 May 2017 6:59 AM
> >> To: Maria Antonia Brovelli; board at lists.osgeo.org
> >> Cc: Mauricio Miranda
> >> Subject: Re: [Board] FOSS4G Argentina
> >>
> >> I’m in favour of supporting Maria’s air fare and accommodations, since
> her
> >> visiting and activities are clearly in line with OSGeo’s outreach goal.
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >> 신상희 드림
> >> ---
> >> Shin, Sanghee
> >> Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
> >> http://www.gaia3d.com
> >>
> >> 보낸 사람: Maria Antonia Brovelli<mailto:maria.brovelli at polimi.it
> <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>>
> >> 보낸 날짜: 2017년 5월 30일 화요일 오후 1:13
> >> 받는 사람: board at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:board at lists.osgeo.org>
> >> 참조: Mauricio Miranda<mailto:maurimiranda at gmail.com
> <maurimiranda at gmail.com>>
> >> 제목: [Board] FOSS4G Argentina
> >>
> >>
> >> Dear All
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I was invited as key note speaker for Geo4All (and OSGeo) at the FOSS4G
> >> Argentina [1].
> >>
> >>
> >> Malena, the chair of the Conference, wrote:
> >> ...
> >> Geo4All: I said before that we have a lot of users. Most of them are
> >> government employees that have started to work with FOSS just because of
> >> money issues in their agencies or institutions. Argentina is not
> different
> >> from any other country, we have the same problems: all Universities only
> >> teach with proprietary software so every professional that cames out to
> the
> >> market only knows about some specific tools. Definitively we want, and
> we
> >> must, to change that. Our plan is to organize a specific activity
> related
> >> with Geo4All where we put together people from different Universities
> with
> >> people that already have good experience working and teaching with
> FOSS4G.
> >> We think this would be a "mind change" event, we need to evangelize
> people
> >> to make them know that FOSS is the way to go, not because of money,
> because
> >> of freedom. I, and some others here, can talk a lot about this but no
> one
> >> will pay as much attention as they will to someone like María. She's not
> >> only the Queen of FOSS4G, she is a great leader and an awesome speaker.
> We
> >> need her here to convince those all professors and decision takers from
> >> Universities to move into the FOSS4G world.
> >>
> >> ....
> >>
> >>   Besides these specific activities,  I will have a keynote about OSGeo
> and
> >> our activity.
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm able to organize my first semester teachings in such a way to have
> one
> >> free week  and therefore I'm able to go. Argentina is far, the travel
> will
> >> be tiring  but the Latino American people are wonderful and I will have
> >> great time there. And definitey we need to strenghten our presence
> there.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I want to ask the Board if I can be provided economic support because
> the
> >> LOC is not able to pay my travel and I have great difficulties in
> covering
> >> it.
> >>
> >> In any case, many many thanks to Malena and the Argentinian friends for
> >> their sweet words and their kind offer.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Maria
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> [1] http://www.foss4g-ar.org/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you:
> >>
> >>
> http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_
> >> Studies
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------
> >> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
> >> Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing
> >> Politecnico di Milano
> >>
> >> ISPRS WG IV/4"Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)"
> >> http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html, Board of Directors of
> >> OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET
> >> Advisory Board
> >>
> >> UN-GGIM Italy, UN-GGIM Academic Network Task Team, UN OpenGIS Initiative
> >> (Chair of the Capacity Building WG)
> >>
> >> Sol Katz Award 2015
> >>
> >> P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
> >> Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  maria.brovelli at polimi.it
> >>
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